Live Remote Broadcast: Total Solar Eclipse

Crowds of students, faculty and community members in Parkville, Missouri saw the solar eclipse through a filter of cloudy skies.

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Just hours ahead of the total eclipse of the sun, Central Standardbroadcasts live from Parkville, Missouri. We hear from KCUR reporters along the path of totality, as well as scientists and historians who traveled across the country to see this rare celestial event.

As the country prepared for the first total solar eclipse over the continental United States in decades, the Up To Date crew headed into the path of totality for a live broadcast from Parkville, Missouri, and the campus of Park University. We founnd out why scientists, students, and historians were excited about the celestial event.

It is indeed dark during the day as a total solar eclipse makes its way from Oregon to Missouri to South Carolina. Eleven states are in the path of total darkness. Follow the astronomical phenomenon's journey across America along with NPR journalists and others experiencing the eclipse.